On Beichen Star, in an unremarkable wasteland.
A vast corpse like a giant serpent, more than ten kilometers long, crashed down with a thunderous boom. Countless cracks covered the surface of its body, and then it collapsed apart, turning into streams of countless energy particles.
Whoosh!
A gray-robed young man walked out from the serpent's remains. His eyes were calm, and he frowned slightly. "A king? It had God Monarch combat power too, yet the treasures it accumulated amount to only this much."
He was very dissatisfied.
"And it was about the same as the intelligence said."
"I killed three so-called overlord lifeforms in a row, plus this king, and not one of them was willing to lower its head. They'd rather die than submit?" The gray-robed young man shook his head inwardly. "The native lifeforms of Beichen Star clearly have very ordinary souls and wills, yet they're all this stubborn?"
Over the long years, the vast majority of the treasures born on Beichen Star's surface had been collected by the native lifeforms.
"Looks like figuring out the intelligence on Beichen Star's 'native lifeforms' won't be that easy," the gray-robed young man thought.
He had prepared many plans. One of them was to obtain the locations of most of the native lifeforms as quickly as possible, making it easier to hunt them down.
Only then could he accumulate treasures with maximum efficiency.
Finally, when there was an opportunity, he would head to the various "treasure spaces" to seize treasures.
Unexpectedly, he had failed.
"Forget it!"
"I'll complete another task first." The gray-robed young man flipped his palm, and a dark purple crystal appeared in it. The crystal gave off a hazy glow and seemed rather profound.
Inside the crystal was a strand of soul-stirring "blood-red thread," as if it were